(Victor Davis Hanson) The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.
Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world:
1.) How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now? Continue reading
“Vaccination plus behavioral change among gay and bisexual men. That is the group most affected in the United States in the 2022 outbreak. It has caused U.S. cases of MPox to fall from more than 30,000 in 2022 to 1,700 in 2023. The behavioral change is they cut out most orgies.”
(Mary Dowling) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared MonkeyPox, which WHO now calls MPox, a global health emergency. The most common way it has spread in the past is via gay orgies. However, it can spread without sexual contact and has been. The new strain is more dangerous. The WHO wants money and vaccines. Continue reading
11 Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. 1 Chronicles 29:11 (LSB)
I was involved in a theological “discussion” quite some time ago in which one who disagreed with the Doctrines of Grace attempted to say that his belief that Man’s Free Will was sacrosanct and God could not violate it was Biblical Christianity. After much consternation and prayer on how to respond to that that I simply told him that he was in unbelief…. Continue reading
“The details of each chapter vary. In the case of COVID, for example, evangelical leaders platformed a guy (Francis Collins) who was literally paid by the government to message their political agenda, and then those same leaders turned around and called evangelicals ‘conspiracy theorists’ if they didn’t accept what Collins (and, by extension, the government) was saying. That is the most direct case of evangelical leaders being misled by political money.”
(Jesse Johnson – The Cripplegate) Inside of American evangelicalism is a paradox: many of the most respected leaders use their influence to steer denominations and institutions in a direction that is significantly more liberal than the people those leaders ostensibly represent. Continue reading
“The future of the church, and our country, depends on us employing a different model and equipping the saints while also reaching the lost. There are practicalities that we can take from the megachurch movement, but the next era of church in this nation must correct the errors above.”
(Steven Whitlow – Clear Truth Media) When I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior, I had to write a senior paper. My family had left our Assemblies of God Church a few years prior, and found ourselves at the up-and-coming local megachurch. I fell in love with it, so much so that my paper’s thesis statement was the following: Continue reading
“Hinn has regularly preached that people reap what they sow. Now is his time for reaping.”
(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) In a divorce petition filed on July 26, 2024, in Florida, televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife Suzanne Hinn reported, “The marriage between the Wife and Husband is irretrievably broken.”
Suzanne requested spousal support and asked the court, “Require the Husband to contribute to the Wife’s attorney’s fees and costs, including forensic accountant fees, both temporarily and permanently …” Continue reading
“Harris’s so-called commitment to justice, equality, and compassion. We’re expected to believe that her push for unrestricted abortion, her support for defunding the police, and her endorsement of gender confusion are somehow expressions of Christian love. Really? Since when did advocating for the slaughter of unborn children become an act of compassion?”
(The Dissenter) Imagine, if you will, a group of people so detached from reality that they’ve decided Kamala Harris—a politician whose life and career is a veritable checklist of anti-Christian sentiment and policies—is actually a “faithful and committed Christian.” Enter “Evangelicals for Harris,” a group that’s apparently dedicated to rewriting history and redefining what it means to follow Christ. Continue reading
“The gospel plus anything is no gospel at all, but TGC would have you believe that if you’re not out there fighting for every cause that the culture deems worthy, you’re somehow not fulfilling the Great Commission. This is more than just a misunderstanding—it’s a perversion of the gospel itself, dressed up in language that’s meant to sound pious and loving but is, in reality, nothing more than spiritualized social engineering.”
(The Dissenter) The Gospel Coalition (TGC) is one of the Evangelical’s trunk lines for piping in worldliness and carnality straight into the heart of the church. If the three-ring circus that operates the organization isn’t busy finding gospel themes in Barbie or comparing Taylor Swift to the Messiah, Jesus, then you might find them publishing more “serious” stuff—like how Jesus “penetrates” his bride and injects His “seed” into her. Continue reading
“I point out a distinction between associations and alliances. Ruslan speaking at Preston Sprinkle’s conference is an association. It doesn’t make him a false teacher but it’s a glaring red flag. However, Immanuel Church has Gavin Ortlund, Sam Allberry, and Russell Moore in leadership. This isn’t mere association. Their wagons are hitched.”
(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) “Christian” YouTubers have been circling the wagons to defend Gavin Ortlund and his liberalism, including Jordan Cooper and Redeemed Zoomer, after it was broadcasted in Megan Basham’s bestselling book, Shepherds For Sale. Also included in the wagon circling is Ruslan KD, a YouTuber with 613K subs, which is quite large in the niche. Continue reading
(Daniel Greenfield – Front Page) With headlines like “Harris Surges Ahead: A New Era of Democratic Enthusiasm and Opportunity” and “Former Friend Exposes JD Vance’s Radical Transformation: A Study in Political Opportunism”, you might mistake NioThinker for another mainstream media outlet.
Only the occasional odd word choice and convoluted bit of grammar hints that the digital media site flowing with enthusiasm for Kamala and contempt for Trump isn’t really American.
Classified as part of Iran’s ‘Storm-2035’ network: NioThinker is an enemy operation. Continue reading
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been finished, in order to finish the Scripture, *said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. John 19:28-30 (LSB)
Sometimes God brings things into our lives that seem devastating. Others may also see these things in our lives and question that God even exists. They cannot conceive of a loving God who would cause or allow debilitating diseases that are always fatal into the fragile bodies of those who profess faith in the Saviour…. Continue reading
(Joe Boot – Clear Truth Media) The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times. – J. C. Ryle
Every age of the church has people happy to stay ignorant. They will sit by their firesides, or these days in front of their screens, unwilling to bother with careful Christian thinking about culture and what that would actually require of them as believers in the world. Continue reading
“Greear’s entire sermon was constructed to soften the perception of homosexuality by lumping it together with other, less shocking sins. Sure, homosexuality is sin, Greear concedes, but so is greed, so is pride, so is lying—so why not stop making such a big deal out of it? Why not downplay its severity so we can win a few more brownie points with the secular culture?”
(The Dissenter) JD Greear has stepped up to the plate in an attempt to defend his reputation against Megan Basham’s allegations in Shepherds for Sale, but his response is more akin to a magician’s sleight of hand than a genuine rebuttal. In an article titled “An Open Response to Megan Basham’s Shepherd’s for Sale,” he takes a desperate stab at defending himself. Continue reading
(Douglas Andrews – The Patriot Post) Elon Musk is one guy. Let’s remember that.
Admittedly, he’s a remarkably rich and powerful guy, but he’s still one guy. So when Kamala Harris complains to her supporters that the world’s most influential African American is “a lackey for Team MAGA” and that he’s “using his vast fortune and broad reach to try to control our democracy,” well, wethinks she doth protest too much. How dare a tech titan turn his back on her, huh?
After all, Donald Trump may have Elon Musk on his side, but Kamala Harris has everyone else: the mainstream media, Hollywood, the unions, the schools, the colleges and universities, the foundations, the increasingly woke mega-corporations like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, and the list goes on. Continue reading
17 also receive THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
18 praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, 19 as well as on my behalf, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel— 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains—so that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. Ephesians 6:17-20 (LSB)
Ungodly focus is the focus that everyone has except for the Spirit-filled believer. This focus is oriented to self. Believers who are self-focused are either baby Christians or they have succumbed to Satan’s attacks against them. These attacks are designed specifically to render each believer powerless and without a Christlike testimony…. Continue reading
“Perhaps the biggest “tell” about Kamala is that she believes all Americans should be in “an equal place.” She said that at a Democratic Party event on September 30, 2022. Of course, that’s precisely what Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Xi spout. And it is preposterous because every human being is different, some far more capable than others.”
(Bill O’Reilly) No ideology discussion today. Not needed in assessing Vice President Harris. No honest person can dispute her ardent liberalism. No past presidential candidate from a front-line political party has ever even approached Ms. Harris’ leftist beliefs.
Senator Bernie Sanders, an admitted “democratic socialist” who honeymooned in Moscow, loves Kamala Harris…. Continue reading
“All the hate and vitriol towards half the country comes from one party and their media. their alliances with the globalists who sit in organizations like the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, etc. should terrify us.”
(Mary Dowling) Do we really know the truth about what our government has been doing for the past several decades? We’re beginning to find out.
We now have an administration fully empowered to destroy our borders, our economy, and our culture while implementing authoritarian rules, mandating we close businesses, remain in our homes, don’t go to church, and accept forced untested vaccines.
This happening, and it’s real. Continue reading
(Newsmax) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reiterated the U.S. commitment to “take every possible step to defend Israel” on Sunday, in the seventh call with his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in recent weeks.
“Reinforcing this commitment, Secretary Austin has ordered the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Carrier Strike Group, equipped with F-35C fighters, to accelerate its transit to the Central Command area of responsibility, adding to the capabilities already provided by the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Carrier Strike Group,” the Defense Department said. Continue reading
16 “Thusly, for God loved the world, so that He gave his only Son, that all those trusting in him might not be destroyed but might have life eternal. (John 3:16 translated from the NA28 Greek text)
26 As indeed for the body without spirit is dead, thusly also the trust without works is dead. (James 2:26 translated from the NA28 Greek text)
There is no more dramatic contrast between two words than those describing what are alive and those describing what are dead. For instance, in James 2:14-26 James describes the difference between living faith (trust), which is saving faith (trust), and dead faith (trust), which does not save…. Continue reading
This article was first published in December 2020.
By Marsha West
What does it mean to be an Evangelical? In days gone by Evangelical differentiated Protestants from Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. During the revivals of the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and America, Evangelicalism became a movement.
“The word Evangelicalism is derived from the Greek words euangelion, which means “good news,” and euangelizomai, which means “to proclaim as good news.” This good news is that “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve” (1 Corinthians 15:3b-5). This good news, which is the Gospel of Christ, and the preaching of it are what Evangelicalism was based upon.” (Source) Continue reading
“On July 8, President Joe Biden upped the ante by telling Democrat donors, “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”… A mere five days later at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, a young gunman who somehow gained access to an unsecured rooftop with a direct line of sight to his target less than 150 yards away, got off eight shots – right under the noses of the Secret Service – that missed killing the Republican candidate by the thinnest of margins…”
(Mark Tapson – Front Page) It is unsettling to realize that the shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump less than four weeks ago seems to have already faded into the distant past.
This shooting of a former President and current presidential candidate is an historic incident that should have sparked serious, bipartisan, national self-examination, and a demand for answers not only about the would-be assassin but about the jaw-dropping security lapses that facilitated the shooting…. Continue reading
“Yes, American Evangelicalism does have a few Leftist snakes in the grass. They’re passive-aggressive, they gaslight, they sneer, they deflect. Everything they do is designed to give them plausible deniability. They can do this because that’s all they need to do….Their only job is to ridicule the people who are waking up to it…”
(Joel Berry – Clear Truth Media) If I could pick one prevailing ethos that has defined much of American Evangelicalism over the last 20 years, it’s the belief that the gospel calls faithful Christians to be politically neutral. No one defined the thinking more clearly or winsomely than Tim Keller in his now-famous NYT Op-Ed, entitled: “How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t.”… Continue reading
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:14-16 (LSB)
My first job as an application developer was with the FDIC. I developed the application that was used by those who went through the Bank inventory process during a bank closing to record that bank’s inventory into a database which resided on a Compaq portable computer. I usually went to those closings to support the app and do whatever was needed to keep things running. When we got back to the office I would take that Compaq, copy the db files off of the hard drive onto a network drive, open those db files with the main database server app, and then upload that data into our main database, then assist whoever needed it in printing reports, etc…. Continue reading
“Family, friends, food – these are all good things. And yet they cannot be the ultimate source of our joy. It must go deeper than that, and because of God’s mercy, He has given us the true reservoir or joy. It is in Him. Trials, because of their very nature, threaten our temporal sources of joy, and therefore give us an opportunity to clarify to ourselves where our ultimate joy lies.”
(Michael Kelly) The older I get, the more convinced I become that much of life is about responding.
That’s the because the older I get, the more I see how much of life is actually out of our control. We do what we can to be proactive, prepared, and anticipatory of all different kinds of issues, but none of that preparation will ever make us completely ready for the things that happen to us every day…. Continue reading
“Catechesis is about teaching the fundamentals of the faith. It is simple but not simplistic, thoughtful but not arcane, practical but not pragmatic. It focuses less on speculative aspects of theology or ‘hot topics’ and more on providing the basic categories in which Christianity is understood and lived. It provides us the grammar to speak to God and neighbor in a genuinely Christian way.”
(Keith Foskey – Clear Truth Media) I can usually tell how old someone is simply by throwing out a few references. For instance, when I say “88 miles per hour!”, “Freeze gopher!” or “I’ll be back” to a certain subset of adults, I don’t have to cite the references; they know all of them. And I always know I’ve met a friend when I use the word “plethora” and he asks me if I know what a plethora is. Continue reading